Category: Oracle

As a consultant I get to see many different systems, managed by different people. A large proportion of these systems are broken in exactly the same ways to others, which makes spotting the problems pretty straightforward! It occurred to me at some point that this is a bit like a crime scene – somebody had murdered the system, and it was my job to find out ‘whodunnit’, or at least ‘whatdunnit’. The ‘what’ is quite frequently one (or few) actions performed by the administrator, normally with good intention, that result in system performance or availability carnage. I call these actions ‘Red Flags’, and spotting them can save a lot of time.Continue reading “Spotting the Red Flags (Part 1 of n)”